Sony's new DSC-S600: high on features but low on the wallet

The Sony folks popped out another budget-cam in the Cybershot series. The DSC-S600 retails at SonyStyle for a $199 pre-order and gets you a 6 megapixel res, 32 MB of internal memory, and what Sony claims is their longest effective flash at 33 feet. The long flash throw is helped by reviewing 49 light points in the frame and by the high-light sensitivity of up to 1000 ISO. For two-hundred clams, Sony throws in a sharp Carl Zeiss Vario Tesslar wide-angle zoom lens of 31 to 93mm which also helps cap MPEG video at 30 fps in VGA. Add in the standard Memory Stick Duo media slot and two-inch LCD screen and it's not so budget when you think about the whole package, is it now?

[Robert Aitchison @ Jan 5th 2006 12:48PM]

Looks like a good camera, but as long as it's stuck with ?er expensive Memory $tick I'll have to pass.



Plus there's the whole not wanting to give money to Sony after the rootkit issue and their response to it thing.

[Balazs @ Jan 5th 2006 12:56PM]

I'm by no means a photographer, but when you see the size of the lens on the s600 (read link) it just shows you that this can't be any good. No wonder it is sub $200.

[Adrian @ Jan 5th 2006 4:32PM]

#2, Carl Zeiss doesn't put his name on crap lenses. All the digicams I've used with Carl Zeiss lenses have had very good lenses.



I don't know how good the pictures will be from this unit, but you can't judge quality by size. The sensors on these cameras are so small that all your need is a good small lens.



And #1, Memorys Stick duo is still a bit more expensive than SD, but not by much. With zillions of PSP's out there and so many sony cameras on the market, the price difference is getting very small.